Independence Day 2022

 Happy Independence Day, everyone! Hope y'all had a great day. Here's just a photo dump of our day. 

And I got a pic of Lady G in her holiday outfit!

Independence Weekend

 We had our 4th of July celebration today, since tomorrow is a Sunday, and likely to be frowned upon if we celebrated then. So today, I had my own race, which I took first place in, thank you very much. Then we spent the day with family. We played in the pool a bit, and I unwrapped my new pool floatie. This is what it was supposed to be: 

And here is what it actually was: 

Absolutely incredibly tiny hahaha I was dying when I opened it! So basically its small enough for a child, despite the original appearance. Eh, good enough. 

Then we gave up on fireworks, after Epifanio was too grumps (that boy skipped his afternoon nap) so we just called it a night after dinner. What a thrilling holiday! 

Happy Independence Day!

Happy holiday!  Hope everyone had an amazing day!

 I found this in my neighborhood this morning, someone on my street is such an amazing chalk artist, I love looking for the new art she's made.

This year, (because of Coronavirus, of course) the city did fireworks at the park near my house. We could set up so easily in my front yard and watch them all, it was so much fun!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Freedom Day! I ran the annual 10K despite the bronchitis, which was probably not my best idea. But I survived!

Then the day was spent with family and food, and plus, this tiny baby and I were dressed very similar. Of course I had to take a pic. 

 (He's so slouchy, we tried so hard to get his shirt to be visible but he would not work with us)

One of our fireworks at the end of the night caught fire and burned for a while, so we just sang the Star Spangled Banner, and called it a night.
Happy 4th! I hope you all had a great day as well!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th, everyone! I started the day in my usual fashion, the Provo City Freedom 10k. I added a cape this year! Magical.

 Husband got a cool action shot of me finishing the race, look at my majestic cape fly.

 That night, we had our usual dinner and fireworks at my house, and these jokers sat on my lap the whole time of fireworks.

 Earlier, my SIL asked if I could do a handstand. I said no, and then she said to try and that she would spot me. Her face as she tries to do so here kills me, zoom in if you need to, it's amazing.

All in all, a pretty good holiday! I hope you and yours had a great day too!

Independence Day 2017

Happy Independence Day! I celebrated first off with the customary 10K in Provo

After a day of chilling with the little tykes and enjoying the sun, we had a delicious BBQ, and I made a relish dessert to celebrate America.

(sorry for the sideways pic, but oh well). Darth met my niece (on the other side of the family) E-Money and they were instant friends,

But believe me when I say, these hams were just hamming it up for the camera, they always made sure someone was looking when they did something sweet. We had a good night and nobody caught on fire from the fireworks, so I consider the whole day a success. This is how we watched most of the fireworks:

The sentence on the pic is just an inside joke between sisters in law, don't worry about it haha. I hope you guys had a great day also!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July! I started off the morning with my usual race, the Provo Freedom Run.

 This was the first year I had to run the race by myself, which was sad, but also, I did the best I ever have - I finished in 53 minutes, which isn't too bad at all. I was so hot and sweaty by the end, holy cow. But still fun! Then the day was just spent chilling and that night, we had fireworks, yes, so soon after Canada Day. We had a great time, and then at the end of the night, when we were done, we saw some smoke coming up from the street behind ours. A few of my neighbors and I hopped into one of their cars, and took off towards it. There was a house that had a wood pile behind the house, and an errant firework went in there and set it on fire. I snapped some pics, it was kind of cool.

Luckily they got it all out and under control quickly, thank goodness. I'm glad no one was hurt, but at least we had a safe 4th, I hope you all did too!

Freedom Run 2013

When I woke up this morning, the weather was kind of wacky. It was super windy, and actually kind of raining! I was so surprised by that, since the weather has been so hot this week. I got ready, and snapped a pic.

I was glad, the tutu really worked out, it wasn’t uncomfortable or anything. PJ ran it with me, and as we were on our way there, she realized she had forgotten her running watch. So…we had to go to her house to pick it up. We arrived to the race right as it was starting, but I still had to put on my timing chip and race number, so we started late, actually, we were some of the last people to cross the start line, but that’s fine, it’s done by a timing chip, so it’s ok.

The race was so warm and humid, so by the time it ended I was covered in sweat, and I was ready for some water. I snagged a bottle of water, and picked up my fancy medal

Huzzah! I really like this race, because you get a medal for just finishing the race, and that’s worth every penny of the race price. Sadly, they ran out of the fancy water bottles, so I didn’t get one of those. That’s ok, maybe next year!

Fourth of July Tutus

Independence day is coming up, guys. I can’t believe it’s already almost July, but there it is. With this holiday comes one of my favorite races, the Freedom 10K that Provo City puts on. We like to dress up in red, white, and blue every year, and like to make it a little more fun with every race that comes. This year, we wanted to kick it up a notch, and make an awesome tutu. There was of course a pin on Pinterest that let us know how to do it, and after buying the tulle, I sat down to make it.

First, I measured the elastic, and figured out how big I needed that. PJ helped me sew that up, because I can’t sew. Then, I put the elastic on a chair, and started to loop the tulle around the elastic.

After using 60 pieces of foot-long pieces of tulle, the tutu was complete. I tried it on to make sure it worked, and it did!

It did! I am proud of it, and I can’t wait to run the race in it! In case you wanted to see it not on me, I am happy to oblige.

Ta-daaa! Now I wish I had more excuses to wear tutus, because I want to make more! I’ll keep an eye out for any situation in which I can possibly wear one.

Independence Day 10k

Happy Independence Day, y’all! I celebrated this morning like I always do; I ran in the Provo City Freedom Run 10k. This is my third year running it, and for the previous 3 years, Stadium of Fire has been on a different day than the race. The race is always on the 4^th, no matter what, but as many of you probably know, the fireworks are somewhat decided by what day of the week the 4^th is, if it’s a Sunday/Monday, the fireworks are on Saturday, that sort of thing. So this being the first year I had to deal with both events, and it made me late for the race! Usually, I drive down University Pkwy (Yes, you’ll be getting great details, deal with it) and park on 9^th East, near the Creamery on BYU Campus. But today, they had closed down many of the roads leading to the race, so we had to crazy detour, and had to park pretty far away from the race, by some sort of building, I don’t actually know which one. Then we (PJ & I, in case I hadn’t specified) were hurrying our fastest to get to the start line. When we were a block or so away, we heard the countdown of the time, and then the gun went off, and before we knew it, the racers all started running past us, a few of them teasing us and telling us we were going the wrong way. We were one of the last people to cross the start line – by several minutes.

This race is always a favorite, because it’s so easy-going. The thing I both dislike and like about it is that you run the parade route; so basically, most of the race is done in front of the people waiting for the parade to start. It sucks running in front of all of these people, but at the same time, you do get a lot of high fives from a lot of strangers that are cheering you on. Plus, Provo city has a lot of music stations randomly placed throughout the race, so you get to have mini dance parties every like, quarter mile for a few miles, its fun. I made a friend on the sidelines who danced with me as I passed them.

The race ended, and they were handing out the water bottles and medals you get for finishing. The thing I HATE about the Provo race is that they don’t really give you any water. Usually, if they do, it’s in a tiny cup, and its hose water. I don’t mind hose water, necessarily, but for some reason, Provo’s hose water tastes gross gross gross. So this year, we had to use the new water bottles we were given to drink our water from. We had to stand in a long line to get our water, and then, they gave me exactly 5 pumps of water, which filled up about a quarter of my bottle. When I looked at the guy, all he said was “Sorry, we’re rationing.” Seriously? I just ran 6.2 miles in the July morning sun, and I get about 3 gulps of water? Awesome. Then I was like, I should put on my medal, it’s time to celebrate my run. I pulled the medal out of the wrapping and…it broke. The medal was broken! I went back to the medal hander-outers, and asked for a replacement. She informed me that they were out. GAH are you kidding me, Provo?! So at this point, I gave up, and we walked back to the car, to go get our own water.

So, all in all, it was a pretty good race. I enjoyed the run, naturally, but the after-events really made me hate it. I almost want to write a survey or something to send back to the race directors, so that my opinion is known, but I doubt they’d even care. I’ve included some pics we took of the race – the first is the ‘before’ picture, when we haven’t run, and we’re still good, and then, the after, back at my house, after we’re sad about the medal, the water, and the general tiredness of running. I can’t wait for next year now!